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> die all the time

> ur died, Babylon died.

Your two examples are from 2-3 millennia ago. I would think if cities "die all the time," you would have more recent examples.

Maybe it proves the author correct that the first cities that came to mind are from 2500 years ago?

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Good criticism of my post. Here's a more extensive list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_city. So when the author writes "they rarely die" it seems to me like the author has a serious historical blind spot. But why do we need to only talk about "great cities?" Why aren't all the "ghost towns" of the wild west a good enough example?

Because people tend to distinguish between "cities" and "towns." There are a lot of ghost towns, but few ghost cities. Once a settlement becomes large enough to be called a city, it is rare for it to die.

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